1) What is schizophrenia?
One answer only.
2) How many types of schizophrenia are there?
3) A diagnostic system is used by British psychiatrists to classify schizophrenics. Which of the following is it?
4) In which of the following age groups is schizophrenia most likely to first appear?
5) What type of disorder is schizophrenia?
6) Which of the following is not a type of schizophrenia?
7) Many schizophrenics hear voices which are critical of them. What are these experiences called?
8) Schizophrenia appears in both men and women. Which of the following is true?
9) What % of the population suffer from schizophrenia?
10) What are MZ or monozygotic twins?
11) What is the concordance rate for MZ twins for schizophrenia?
12) Which of the following terms refers to the idea that schizophrenia may be determined by innate, inherited factors?
13) Which of the following terms refers to the idea that schizophrenia may be determined by life experiences?
14) Which of the following chemical imbalances in the brain is associated with schizophrenia?
15) Schizophrenics often believe that they are more important and famous than they actually are. Which of the following terms refers to this characteristic?
16) Some schizophrenics believe that people are plotting against them. Which of the following terms refers to this characteristic?
17) Which psychologist claims to have collected evidence to support the genetic explanation for schizophrenia, but actually made most of the evidence up?
18) Which psychologist studied chemical imbalances in the brains of schizophrenics?
19) In which country did Kety do his research?
20) What % MZ concordance rate did Kallman claim to have found in his study of schizophrenia?
21) Recent research suggests there is a link between a certain virus in pregnancy, and schizophrenia. Which virus is it?
22) Lidz distinguished between two types of schizophrenegenic families. Which of the following is not one of these?
23) How many times more likely are black people to be labelled as schizophrenic compared to white people?
24) Bateson believed that schizophrenia could be caused when children are put in intolerable situations in the family. Which of the following terms did he use for this situation?
25) Which of the following groups are most likely to be labelled as schizophrenic?
26) Which of the following causes of schizophrenia does Linda Hart support?
27) Who’s voice does Linda Hart hear?
28) Who said “Show me 100 people labelled schizophrenic and I’ll show you 100 reasons why that person has got into that dreadful state.”?
29) What did he mean by this?
30) Most psychologists favour the vulnerability model when trying to explain the causes of schizophrenia. This suggests that
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